Beyoncé: The Formation World Tour
Music
Fresh off her release of "Lemonade," Beyoncé comes to San Diego for her Formation World Tour.
The visual album released in April mixes a variety of styles from R&B to pop and features guest artists James Blake, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd and Jack White. Tidal, Jay Z's streaming service, says "Lemonade" is based on "every woman's journey of self-knowledge and healing."
Details: 6 p.m. Thursday. Qualcomm Stadium, 9449 Friars Road, Mission Valley. $45 to $1,000.
"The Boy Who Danced On Air"
Theater
Diversionary Theatre stages a musical about bacha bazi, the illegal but still practiced Afghan tradition of wealthy older men buying boys from poor families. The children are then trained to dance and parade around at parties, and are often sexually abused.
"The Boy Who Danced On Air" follows the story of two boys who experienced bacha bazi. They meet by chance, develop feelings for each other and work toward a new life.
Details: 7 p.m. Thursdays; 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays; through June 12. Diversionary Theatre, 4545 Park Blvd., University Heights. $20 to $45; (619) 220-0097 or find tickets.
Scent And Sound Concert
Music
San Diego Art Institute presents Odophonics, an olfacto-sound performance by Brian Goeltzenleuchter and Sean Francis Conway featuring Art of Élan.
Think chamber music concert highlighted by scents of rose, jasmine, mint and cedar. Each chord is assigned a different smell.
It's based on 19th-century French perfumer Septimus Piesse's "odophone," a literal scale of smells corresponding to different pitches.
Using steam vapor and an industrial fan, Goeltzenleuchter introduces essences from Piesse's Odophone with an arrangement for chamber ensemble. The notes played by the musicians will correspond directly to the smells outlined in Piesse’s work.
Details: 4 p.m. Saturday. San Diego Art Institute, 1439 El Prado, Balboa Park. $5; (619) 236-0011 or find tickets.
La Jolla Music Society Presents The Complete Beethoven Trios
Music
All six Beethoven piano trios will be performed in a marathon concert event put on by the La Jolla Music Society.
Philip Setzer, David Finckel and Wu Han perform Beethoveen's early works from his Opus 1 starting at 3 p.m. followed by music the composer wrote much later in his life at 8 p.m.
Finckel, who plays the cello, and Han, who plays the piano, are married and they're the artistic directors of chamber music at Lincoln Center. Setzer plays violin for the Emerson String Quartet.
Details: 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. $30 to $80; (858) 459-3728 or find tickets.
